Hot sand on Sylt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hot sand on Sylt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerzy Macc |
| script |
Jürgen Knop Jerzy Macc |
| production |
Artur Brauner for CCC Film (Berlin) |
| music | Uli Roever |
| camera | Bob Sticky |
| cut | Alfred Srp |
| occupation | |
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Hot sand on Sylt is a German feature film from 1967 with Horst Tappert in the lead role of an established businessman who went astray in the midlife crisis.
action
Walter Bergmann has, as they say, made it. He is a successful, respected middle-aged businessman, married with one daughter. One day he has to travel to the North Sea island of Sylt for a conference . Once there, his life, which is characterized by correctness, conventions and formalities, soon goes upside down. Sin lurks everywhere - parties, pretty girls, and sexual debauchery in the sand. The always serious man immediately falls in love with a statuesque, blonde beauty named Renate, whom he had already met on the outbound flight and who could very well be his daughter. In the face of these temptations, Bergmann's world begins to totter.
So far, with a suit, tie and handkerchief, the prime example of the bourgeois philistine, for him the amusing artist scene, into which the sensual, promiscuous Renate introduces him, is like immersing himself in a sensual world that is completely unknown to him. But Walter has to quickly realize that he cannot keep up with the basic libertine views of these young people and that he cannot be so physically relaxed. When one day he has to discover Renate in bed with one of her various lovers, Walter realizes that her view of life and the sexual ease of her clique will never correspond to his principles. Remorseful and converted, Bergmann flies back to his wife and child.
Production notes
Hot sand on Sylt was created on Sylt from July 20 to August 31, 1967. Further scenes were created in Hamburg and Berlin. On December 21, 1967, the strip passed the FSK test, the premiere was on January 12, 1968 in several German cities.
For the US version of this flick, which was edited by Peter Savage and opened in New York on July 29, 1970 under the title The New Life Style , he shot a few additional scenes in which Jennifer Stone and Savage also included boxers Rocky Graziano and Jake LaMotta show up.
criticism
“Papa producer Artur Brauner, 49, recently denounced the fact that in German Bubi films young people go to bed naked. Now he, too, let the unknown Jerzy Macc, 36, turn a thing in which people are exposed. The amateurish concoction reports on a wealthy trouser wearer (Horst Tappert), who gets into a nudist crowd on Sylt and then changes his mind: He breaks his old marriage and wants to share his money with a fresh blonde. Tappert, once a TV gangster in 'The Gentlemen Ask To Checkout', acts as a scattered professional in the giggling, childlike amateur event. He finally turns with horror and fizzles. After him the Sylt flood. "
“The film was a scandal because you saw nipples and worse, which is why it couldn't be shown until two in the morning. Whoever sees this film today will have a great time. "
"A primitive, silly film with a pseudo-time-critical plot, boring and implausible, only interested in the speculative exploitation of the island's current image."
“Approaches to a critical distance from the portrayed views of life are lost in too many speculative scenes; therefore and because of formal deficiencies, despite interesting details overall annoying. "
Web links
- Hot sand on Sylt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot sand on Sylt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hot sand on Sylt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 48/1968